2019-05-25T13:40:42ZEconomic growth in Iran from the gender perspectivehttp://hdl.handle.net/11655/6089
Economic growth in Iran from the gender perspective
Ebadi, Sahar
Feminist economics which emerged during women’s movement in the nineteenth century has developed the concept of gender relations in the various aspects of social and economic life. It challenges the male-dominated economic methods and questions why women have been ignored in economic activities and seeks to improve the economic situation of women. In traditional economy, domestic work which is the cheapest and most difficult phase of production has been considered as a woman task. However, women have the largest share of world unpaid jobs, but their participation of the world's total workforce is more than past years. Some economic analysts like Kenny Dawn argue that if women were hired in jobs with pay, the world's economic situation was much better than the current one.
In this thesis we will try to introduce the feminist economics which is a new subject to the literature, gives a new perspective on economic life, make contributions to the feminist movement and examine female prespective on economic approaches. A review of studies up today, mostly reveal that the status of women in the economy has been ignored. Also, in this study, it was aimed to investigate the woman's perspective on the economics. For this purpose, in the first chapter after the concept of feminism is explained, the emergence process of feminism is set forth. Different types of feminist economics theories has formed the second part of study. The last part of the study describes the contribution of feminist economics in the economic and social life and feminist economics point of view regarding the concept of women in the economy has been explained with reference to the views of feminist economists. Actually by means of gender inequality factor, we analyzed the economic growth in Iran. We investigate whether gendered outcomes in labor markets and education have macroeconomic effects and, in particular, whether gender inequality affects the rate of economic growth. Based on the results obtained in this study, it can be argued that reducing gender inequality increases the rate of economic growth. Decreasing gender inequality in employment and education increases the rate of economic growth, in other words, empowering women and increasing the participation of them in economic activities will lead to a high growth rate of economy.
2019-02-01T00:00:00ZEssays on Turkish Labor Markethttp://hdl.handle.net/11655/6074
Essays on Turkish Labor Market
Aldan, Altan
Turkish labor market has fundamental problems; labor force participation and employment rates
are quite low especially among women and informality is prevalent. This thesis includes
analysis on three issues in Turkish labor market. First, the factors behind the rise in the female
labor force participation in recent years are analyzed. Cohort effects, which can be considered
as a proxy for change in societal norms about women’s employment, are found to be the main
determinant in the rise. Improvement in educational attainment of women and decline in fertility
rate are also found to have significant contributions. Second, the causal relation between public
employment and private employment is investigated. Results suggest that rise in public
employment generates additional employment in non-tradable private industries whereas it has
no effect on tradable sector employment. Finally, the determinants of wage over reporting and
the causal link between wage over reporting and minimum wage are investigated. The results
show that wages of female, young and low educated workers have higher probability of being
over reported to administrative bodies. In addition, the propensity of over reporting increases
after minimum wage hike.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZEconomic Complexity and Economic Performancehttp://hdl.handle.net/11655/6061
Economic Complexity and Economic Performance
Güneri, Barbaros
Economic complexity is relatively a new concept developed in recent years to provide a holistic measure of the production characteristics of countries. Economic complexity not only explains the countries’ productive structures but also helps examine the income and growth differences across countries. This study aims to analyze the link between complexity and economic performance for a group of countries for the period between 1981 and 2015 by using the Economic Complexity Index developed by Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009). This thesis contributes to literature in various ways. First, the effect of economic complexity on economic growth and convergence is examined by applying a dynamic panel data methodology. Second, causal relationship between growth and complexity is investigated. Finally, the link between output volatility and economic complexity is also analyzed for a group of countries using a panel vector autoregressive model. The estimation results reveal that economic complexity is an important determinant of economic growth. Furthermore, the findings show that complexity also positively affects the speed of convergence. In addition, it is demonstrated that economic complexity also helps to stabilize an economy through reducing the negative effects of output volatility. These findings suggest that improving the economic complexity contributes greatly to the performance of an economy. Therefore, policies that aim to increase the economic complexity should be one of the major objectives of economies.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Analysis of 2008 Global Economic Crisis : The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Industryhttp://hdl.handle.net/11655/6060
The Analysis of 2008 Global Economic Crisis : The Case of Turkish Manufacturing Industry
Çakmak, İsmail
This study aims to analyze the impact of the 2008 global economic crisis on Turkish manufacturing industry. Economic impacts of crisis have long been investigated; however, this study differentiates by using a new perspective on the issue. Micro-econometric differences in differences method is used in junction with forecasting method. In the study, importance of the manufacturing industry is revealed for Turkish economy by analyzing all sectors operating in the economy. This study also aims to predict what would have happened in the Turkish economy, if the 2008 crisis did not exist and whether the manufacturing industry showed early signals or not. Results indicate that profit levels of Turkish manufacturing sector are affected from the 2008 global economic crisis at two digit sub-sectors level and showed early signals for the crisis. Further, it was found that profit values of manufacturing sector bounced back and even actual profits exceeded the estimated profits in the later years.
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